Sri Lankan cricketer Kusal Perera plays a shot as Bangladesh wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim (L) looks on during the first T20 international cricket match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on April 4, 2017. PHOTO: AFP COLOMBO: Kusal Perera struck a quick-fire half century to steer Sri Lanka to a six-wicket win over Bangladesh in the... Read more »

Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor is keen to see Pakistani cricketers in action in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2017. The actor took to the Twitter on Tuesday to call for the inclusion of Pakistani players in the IPL, asking the decision-makers to invite and make them a part of the league. IPL says no to Pakistan third year running... Read more »

Fans of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire, the basis for HBO’s hit show Game of Thrones, have a new reason to rejoice. George RR Martin, the writer of the wildly popular books will be signing a new development deal with HBO. That could mean that a new show is coming. Martin made the revelation on his... Read more »

PHOTO: AFP MADRID: Real Madrid must negotiate a huge April programme — including clashes with Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich and Barcelona — without Raphael Varane, who was diagnosed with a hamstring tear on Tuesday. “After the tests performed today on our player Raphael Varane, he has been diagnosed with a grade two muscle tear in the left hamstring,” Madrid said in... Read more »

PHOTO COURTESY: PBSA KARACHI: Teenage trio Naseem Akhtar, Haris Tahir and Muhammad Rafiq are all set to compete in the ACBS Asian U21 Championship, which commences from on April 8 in Chandigarh, India, and 16-year-old Akhtar, who took the domestic circuit by storm this year by winning back-to-back titles, feels that this can be his moment of glory on the international... Read more »

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court took a strong position on Monday and observed that it will not allow heritage sites in Lahore to be damaged. While hearing the Rs45 billion Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) project case, Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh stated that nobody will be permitted to violate the law in this regard. “People who do not preserve the past have... Read more »

PHOTO: VIA FACEBOOK The comedy entertainment industry is extremely niche in Pakistan, and Junaid Akram is shaking up the way we see entertainers. For the social media star, no topic is too controversial as his videos feature him talking about his experiences in the country and the way he perceives the society he lives in. Speaking to The Express Tribune,... Read more »

NEW DELHI: At least 200 Indian paramilitary police were hospitalised with suspected food poisoning after eating meals at a training camp in the southern state of Kerala, police said Sunday. Training cadets and security forces belonging to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) complained of diarrhoea and vomiting after eating rice and fish curry for dinner on Saturday at a training... Read more »

BOGOTA: Mudslides in southern Colombia have claimed at least 16 lives and injured some 65 people following recent torrential rains, the authorities said. Governor Sorrel Aroca of the Putumayo department called the development “an unprecedented tragedy,” telling W Radio there were “hundreds of families we have not yet found, and whole neighborhoods missing.” Strong quake of 6.9 magnitude hits Russia’s far... Read more »

BAGHDAD: Ayad al-Jumaili, the man believed to be the deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike, Iraqi State TV said on Saturday, citing Iraq’s military intelligence. Jumaili was killed with other Islamic State commanders in a strike carried out by the Iraqi air force in the region of al-Qaim, near the border with... Read more »